Sam Bankman-Fried cynically plays dumb as all the friends he bought evaporate
NY Post
“I never thought that what I was doing was illegal.”
That stunner comes from a Sunday interview with crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, just handed a 25-year sentence for bilking customers out of billions upon billions of dollars through chicanery at his firms FTX and Alameda Research.
For SBF to deploy the Wait — was that wrong? defense after trying his damnedest for years to cover his tracks is hilariously lame.
Not to mention how he was feted by all and sundry as a financial wizard and presented himself as the leading light of the “effective altruism” movement.
His whole public persona was premised on being the smartest guy in the room.
Heck, his mother, Barbara Fried, sent a letter to the court pleading for mercy for lil’ Sammy on account of what a bright kid he was: He led physics class review sessions! He read “well-known moral philosopher” Derek Parfit in middle school!
